2011-12 Schedule

Tutorials will be held in my college office (Mingos E).

TT Week 0 and Organization Meetings

Collections take place in the Examination School on High Street.

All meetings below in Prof Podsiadlowski's college office (Front Quad, Staircase III, third floor counting from ground).

• Year 1
  • Collections: Friday 20 April
    • 9.15am to 11.45am: mathematics
    • 2.15pm to 4.45pm: physics (for Physics)
    • PhysPhil students will have a philosophy collection at 2.15pm. The physics collection will be distributed to be taken (self-timed) over the weekend and turned in to Mr Buckingham by Monday.
  • Organization: Monday 23 April 5.30pm to 6.00pm
• Year 2
  • Collections: Friday 20 April
    • 9.15am to 12.15pm: thermal physics, electromagnetism
    • 2.15pm to 5.15pm: quantum mechanics
  • Organization: Monday 23 April 6.00pm to 6.30pm
• Year 3
  • Collections: Friday 20 April
    • 9.15am to 12.15pm: general relativity, condensed matter physics
      • Use different booklets for the two topics.
      • You should spend 1.5 hours on each.
      • If you are not taking one of the topics, or didn't have the relevant teaching, you are free to spend additional time on the other topic. However, make a note in your booklets what work was done beyond the first 1.5 hours.
    • 2.15pm to 5.15pm: subatomic physics
      • The collection is actually 1.5 hours long. You are free to spend additional time on it, but make a note in your booklets what work was done beyond the 1.5 hours.
  • Organization: Monday 23 April 6.30pm to 6.50pm
• Year 4
  • Meeting with tutors: Monday 23 April 5.15pm to 5.30pm

Year 1

Tutors:

• CP1: Mr Ryan Buckingham, Dr Jeff Tseng (HT)
• CP2: Prof Philipp Podsiadlowski
• CP3/4: Dr Joanna Ashbourn

CP1 Classical Mechanics

• Margaret Infield (PP)
• Alberto Merchante Gonzalez (PP)
• Sam Mortimer (PP)
• Thomas O'Neill
• Rebecca Ramjiawan
• James Roberts
• Timothy Seah
• Tharini Thirukkumar

Written work to be handed in to Dr Tseng's college pigeonhole by noon the day before tutorial or class.

Week	hand-in	Tutorial/Class
Vac/HT1	SR 2

Lecture notes and problem sets

• Classical mechanics (old page)
  • For work due in week 3, see a previous year's notes on potentials and simple harmonic motion
  • For work due in week 4, see previous year's notes on frames and resisted motion and variable mass problems
• Special relativity

Additional material

• Relativistic four-momentum notes (pdf) (for B1 and CP1)

Year 2

• James Ball (TT)
• Dasith De Silva (VS)
• Janosz Dewberry (VS)
• Matthew Donora
• Ben Fletcher
• David Hewitt
• Thomas Hole
• Philipp Karkowski
• Duncan Littlejohns
• Alvaro Martin Alhambra
• Francesca Mosely
• Tsz Chung Tong

Tutors:

• A1: Dr Joanna Ashbourn; Dr Georg Viehhauser
• A2: Prof Philipp Podsiadlowski
• A3: Dr Jeff Tseng

A3 Quantum Mechanics

Written work to be handed in to Dr Tseng's college pigeonhole by noon the day before tutorial (or 7pm if on Sunday).

Week	hand-in	Class/Tutorial
HT1	1.2,5,7-17 2.3-5,8-10	tutorials M,T class Th
HT2		class Th
HT3	3.1-9 4.1-5,7,9,10	tutorials Th,F
HT4		class Th
HT5	5.1,3-10	tutorials Th,F
HT6		class Th
HT7	6.1-8 FQM1.1-5	tutorials Th,F
HT8		class Th
TT1	7.1,2,6-10,18
TT2	FQM 2.1-6
TT4	FQM 3.1-6

• Even the problems assigned for written work are to be turned in, you should do all the problems in the problem sets. They're all useful, and we'll discuss some of them in tutorial.

Additional material

• Quantum mechanics material
• (Old course - lecture notes can be helpful)
• Further quantum mechanics material
• Atomic physics notes (look near the bottom of the page) contains some useful further information on selection rules, exchange symmetry, etc.
• Notes on Fermi's Golden Rule and density of states

Talking Physics

Presentations are to be 15 minutes long, Mondays at 5:30pm in the Doctorow Hall. Slides are to be sent to the reviewer Wednesday the week before.

Date	Week	Speaker	Reviewer	Title
30 Jan	3	Matthew	Ashbourn	Black Holes
30 Jan	3	Ben	Ashbourn	Chaos
6 Feb	4	David	Tseng	Dark Matter and Dark Energy
6 Feb	4	Thomas	Tseng	Discovery and Analysis of Exoplanets
13 Feb	5	Conor	Ashbourn	Bohr/Einstein
13 Feb	5	Philipp	Ashbourn	T1-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging
20 Feb	6	Duncan	Tseng	The Physics of Music
20 Feb	6	Alvaro	Tseng	Insights on the Laws of Thermodynamics
1 Mar 6pm	7	Francesca	Ashbourn	Tachyons
1 Mar 6pm	7	Alex	Ashbourn	Anthropic Principle and the Fine-Tuned Universe
5 Mar	8	Dasith	Tseng	Entropy and Biology
5 Mar	8	Janosz	Tseng	Dissecting Cosmic Tadpoles: Starbursting Galaxies at Low and High Redshift

Year 3

• Alexander Chan
• Fraser Davies
• Kennan Lee
• Jaroslaw Nowak
• Rowan Skilbeck
• Angus Williams

Tutors:

• 1 fluid/chaos: Dr David Munday
• 1a biophysics: Miss Ashley Nord
• 2 symmetry/relativity: Mr Phil Bull
• 3 atomic/molecular: Prof Andrew Steane
• 4 sub-atomic: Dr Tseng
• 5 general relativity/cosmology: Dr Aris Karastergiou
• 6 condensed matter: Dr John Morton

B2.IV. Subatomic physics

Written work to be handed in to Dr Tseng's college pigeonhole by noon the day before tutorial (or 7pm if on Sunday).

Week	hand-in	Class/Tutorial
HT2	1.1-7
HT4	1.8,9; 2.1-5
HT6	2.6-8; 3.1-3
HT8	3.4-7; 4.1-3
TT1	4.4-7; 5.1-4
TT2?	5.5-10

Additional material

• Subatomic physics material
• Notes on Fermi's Golden Rule
• Sample paper (answers)
• TT Collection (answers)

Year 4

• Justin Alsing
• Mark Godden
• Maire Gorman
• Christopher Hadnutt (PP)
• Till Hoffmann
• Owen Thomas

Draft revision week schedule

Week	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3
1
2	CP3 (Tseng)
3		A1 (Viehhauser)
4	CP1,4 (Buckingham)	math (Podsi)	B2.III,IV (Steane/Tseng)
5	CP2 (Podsi)	A3 (Tseng)	B3.V,VI (Karastergiou/Morton)
6		A2 (Podsi)	B1.I,II (Munday/Nord/Bull)

Location abbreviations:

• dwb - Denys Wilkinson Building, room 673 (my office)
• seh - Hall, Dr Tseng's college office (Mingos E)
• pod - Hall, Dr Podsi's college office (Staircase III)